5 Seconds Of Summer Break Into A ‘Permanent Vacation’ [Video]

Australian boy band 5 Seconds Of Summer kicked off their world tour in Lisbon, Portugal last night, May 4. As reported by the Inquisitr yesterday, 5 Seconds Of Summer is trying to break away from their boy band image. Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin, and Michael Clifford just announced that New York pop-punk band State Champs will support them during the Australia and New Zealand leg of their “Rock Out With Your Socks Out” tour.

During the first show of the headline tour, 5 Seconds Of Summer hit up their fans with an unexpected treat. According to BillBoard, 5SOS debuted a brand new tune called “Permanent Vacation.” Radio even suggests that the song sounds like early Green Day, a band that 5 Seconds Of Summer is known to admire. The song with its “Nah-Nah-Nah” sing along lines and an anthemic chorus sounds like a sure-fire stadium hit.

The song is an up-tempo jam, and with its melodic and radio friendly chorus, it seems like 5 Seconds Of Summer is aiming for this song to be the summer 2015 anthem. The lyrics on the track even has 5 Seconds Of Summer promising that they are “going to take over your radio stations and become the voice of the generation.”

After the Lisbon show, 5 Seconds of Summer bass player, Calum Hood, took to Twitter to thank the band’s Portuguese fans for their support and added that he hoped that fans liked “the new song, permanent vacation.”

Also hoping you like the new song, permanent vacation!

— Calum Hood (@Calum5SOS) May 4, 2015

It would seem that the new song was a hit as Hood’s tweet was re-tweeted over 46,000 times and favorited over 70,000 times.

5 Seconds Of Summer fans showed that the irony of the songs title was not lost on them with numerous fans taking to Twitter to comment “how can you have a ‘permanent vacation’ when you only have 5 Seconds Of Summer.”

Billboard recently reported that 5 Seconds of Summer drummer, Ashton Irwin, recently revealed that the band would be releasing their sophomore album later this year, and it seems like “Permanent Vacation” offers fans an early glimpse of what it may sound like. Kpopstarz reported that Irwin explained that the second 5 Seconds Of Summer album would sound very different to the first.

“I don’t want to write the same album again, so I go out there and see what life has for me, and then I’ll go back and I’ll write about it, so I’m really looking forward to that ’cause I’m feeling like I miss that at the moment.”

If “Permanent Vacation” is typical of the tracks that make the album, then it would seem that 5 Seconds Of Summer is determined to break into the pop-punk market.

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